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Speaker 2: Hey hair, I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news. Now,
Speaker 2: if you're like Johnny Mack, the theme sounds a little
Speaker 2: different today. What's going on? Well, on Tuesday morning, Johnny
Speaker 2: Mack's hard drive filled up and he deleted a bunch
Speaker 2: of files and deleted one too many. You know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying is I had to go back to the
Speaker 2: original cut of the music theme and now I have
Speaker 2: to go back in and find listen to what it's doing.
Speaker 2: Now let's listen. Yeah, we never get to that part,
Speaker 2: so I have to go back in and grab what's
Speaker 2: called a mixed down and get the smaller part. So
Speaker 2: this is kind of fun. It is a Tuesday, coming
Speaker 2: off July fourth weekend, and this is usually one of
Speaker 2: the toughest weeks of the year to Judas program because
Speaker 2: there is no news. So I will sock slow. Oh
Speaker 2: we he just jammed in the band, all right. R
Speaker 2: Gejorvay said, I was asked to come up with a
Speaker 2: new billboard for the London Underground as our last one
Speaker 2: was banned. This for his whiskey company. Whecky said, I
Speaker 2: thought I should do a little bit more market research
Speaker 2: before a waste company money and wondered will this be
Speaker 2: too annoying for commuters? If so, I think I'll go
Speaker 2: with it. He then shared an image that said win
Speaker 2: a million pounds that way you don't have to take
Speaker 2: the tube. Hey, nice job, Nicki Glazer. This from ksd
Speaker 2: K read slow John, you don't have a lot of
Speaker 2: news today. Last week, when the air conditioning went out
Speaker 2: at an East Saint Louis animal shelter during their heat
Speaker 2: wave gateway, pet Guardians sent out an urgent plea to
Speaker 2: the community to help Wednesday Love. Last week, they posted,
Speaker 2: this is a crisis situation. Additionally, we're receiving a large
Speaker 2: number of calls about outdoor strays and heat distress. We
Speaker 2: need a safe place to land. We need the community's
Speaker 2: help right now. Part of that community, Saint Louis native
Speaker 2: Nicky Glazer the shelter, wrote on Instagram that Nicky saw
Speaker 2: our reel, reached out right away, and came by Gep
Speaker 2: as soon as she was back in town to scoop
Speaker 2: up a foster. Looks like Egbert is settling in just fine,
Speaker 2: cozy content and clearly in his comedy era. We are
Speaker 2: truly so grateful for all of you. Nice job at
Speaker 2: Nikki Lazer. It's always sunny in Philadelphia. Back out tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Season seventeen eight episodes, and we get two episodes tomorrow.
Speaker 2: July ninth, they were doing some press, Glenn Homerton talked
Speaker 2: about how he almost left the show. Glenn and the
Speaker 2: gang were at the Palely Live twentieth anniversary panel. Glenn
Speaker 2: thought about leaving before season twelve. He told the creative team, look,
Speaker 2: I just don't want to wear out our welcome. I
Speaker 2: was worried that maybe we had sort of peaked or something,
Speaker 2: and I was just like, you know, we've been doing
Speaker 2: this a long time, and I think I was anxious.
Speaker 2: I hadn't figured out yet how to stretch myself and
Speaker 2: be able to do other things that I wanted to
Speaker 2: do with my career outside of the show. I just
Speaker 2: hadn't figured out how to do that yet. I was
Speaker 2: aching to do other things, and so I was starting
Speaker 2: to feel a little boxed in. Frankly, the rest of
Speaker 2: the cast said they didn't want the show to end,
Speaker 2: and he said, well, I can't stop you. And then
Speaker 2: seasons thirteen and fourteen, I came back as an actor,
Speaker 2: but I wasn't in the writer's room. During that period,
Speaker 2: Glenn went on The MINDI Project and Fargo. He also
Speaker 2: did ap Bio, which is okay, but not you know,
Speaker 2: that's not the most radical departure acting wise. Rob Mack said,
Speaker 2: they just kept writing it and kept writing him in,
Speaker 2: and we're like, he's just gonna eventually say he's coming back.
Speaker 2: And that's what happened. You know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2: Because of the implication, if you're not a fan of
Speaker 2: the show, I don't even know how to begin to
Speaker 2: explain it. A short version, They've got a boat, some
Speaker 2: women are on the boat. Glenn's character says that the
Speaker 2: women will hook up with them because of the implication,
Speaker 2: suggesting that something horrible could happen to the women. It's
Speaker 2: a sitcom. Don't write me any letters, Glenn said. I
Speaker 2: do remember that with the cruise ship scene with the
Speaker 2: young girl where you actually had to see the implication,
Speaker 2: and actually that was one I was like, please, guys, don't.
Speaker 2: There's just certain things as human being, it's just tough
Speaker 2: to stop. I don't remember I remember thinking the implication
Speaker 2: conversation that you guys wrote was super super funny, or
Speaker 2: maybe I was like worried about crossing a line or something.
Speaker 2: Caitlyn Olson mcilhanny talked about her husband's name changed to
Speaker 2: Rob Mack. She said, I'm legally Olsen Macklhenny, but I
Speaker 2: go buy Olsen, so I don't really have to change anything.
Speaker 2: We can call each other whatever we want. Whatever makes
Speaker 2: him happy makes me happy. Over the holiday weekend, it
Speaker 2: was the thirtieth annual Nantucket Film Festival. Nice Work if
Speaker 2: you can get It Ben Stiller and a group of
Speaker 2: quote comedy all stars discuss their journeys. Ben Stiller shared
Speaker 2: that he personally was dead set against a comedy career
Speaker 2: because it's what his parents did. He didn't stick to
Speaker 2: that all too long. Eliza Slessinger on this panel said
Speaker 2: she was working a desk job and asked her parents
Speaker 2: to help her buy a laptop for comedy writing. May
Speaker 2: Martin dropped out of high school to work at Second
Speaker 2: City and tell jokes on stage. Amber Ruffin's work led
Speaker 2: her to Chicago, then Amsterdam. Michael ian Black also on
Speaker 2: that panel. Meanwhile, at Summerfest, Fortune Feamster was there. She
Speaker 2: said she was there to address what she calls America's
Speaker 2: fun deficit by encouraging people to connect with her and
Speaker 2: with each other. She told The Journal Sentinel, I'm just
Speaker 2: here to help people have fun. The one place you
Speaker 2: can help with that deficit is at a festival.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: Congratulations to Yaka of Samiranov. He's expecting his third child.
Speaker 2: Yakof Samiranov is seventy four years old. He already has
Speaker 2: two adult children, Natasha and Alexander, from a previous relationship.
Speaker 2: He told people, there's something magical about starting over at
Speaker 2: my age. Most people are planning for retirement. Me, I'm
Speaker 2: buying diapers, not for me, but for our future child.
Speaker 2: That's funny. Yes, my wife and I are having a baby.
Speaker 2: People cut basking me, Yakov, how did this happen? And
Speaker 2: I say, same way, It always happens, just with more
Speaker 2: stretching and heating pads afterwards. In Soviet Union comedy podcast
Speaker 2: Filler Fills You or something like that. Maryland Rice Cup,
Speaker 2: you know her as Chloe on twenty four. You know
Speaker 2: what I'm talking about? Jack Bauer's assistant there, Yeah, the
Speaker 2: one that was always calling him. She's a comedian. Did
Speaker 2: you know that? She spoke to Entrepreneur magazine and said
Speaker 2: when she's on the road. She does not want barbecue recommendations,
Speaker 2: especially when I'm traveling alone. I'm like, you think I'm
Speaker 2: going to go sit a loud barbecue and order a
Speaker 2: beer in a big plate of meat? Who do you
Speaker 2: think I am? We learn she was once roommates with
Speaker 2: Sarah Silverman. She told Entrepreneur Sarah was absolutely the better roommate.
Speaker 2: I was a mess. She was so great. I was
Speaker 2: lucky that she allowed me to be there. She also
Speaker 2: discussed working with Gary Shanling, who had such a specific
Speaker 2: confidence in his humor and how he wanted the whole
Speaker 2: world to be I remember reading the Larry Sanders script
Speaker 2: and going, I don't see the jokes. I'm not sure
Speaker 2: if I'm getting this, And then when we did the
Speaker 2: table reading, people were reading in character. Then it was like, oh,
Speaker 2: this is my favorite humor ever. It's so specific to
Speaker 2: the character that it doesn't really work until you hear
Speaker 2: them deliver it. It is indeed a slow newsday. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna pull gossip corner up here into the A block.
Speaker 2: You know who was up getting pizza in New Haven?
Speaker 2: That's right, you guessed correctly, Pete Davidson. He was at
Speaker 2: Sally's a Pisa. They share the news in their social media. Apparently,
Speaker 2: Pete Davidson signed a box and Sally's writing you guys rock.
Speaker 2: Sally's Humble bragged and wrote even New Yorkers make the trip.
Speaker 2: A commenter was curious what Pete Davidson ordered the pizzeria
Speaker 2: only said, let's just say he didn't leave hungry. Really,
Speaker 2: nobody knows. Is it a secret? You can't just tell us,
Speaker 2: Like I don't know, Pete ordered two slices and a coke.
Speaker 2: You can't just tell us. Also Gossip Corner, race car
Speaker 2: driver Lewis Hamilton accused of giving a death stare to
Speaker 2: Jack Whitehall at the British Grand Prix. Apparently, Jack Whitehall
Speaker 2: accidentally bumped into race car driver Lewis Hamilton moments before
Speaker 2: the race while attempting to mingle with the drivers. As
Speaker 2: the story goes, Whitehall had been signaled to pass through
Speaker 2: by a team member, but then almost body checked the
Speaker 2: seven time world champion race car driver Jack Whitehall. So
Speaker 2: hold Sky Sports just now when I was being invited
Speaker 2: to the grid and nearly body check Sir Lewis Hamilton,
Speaker 2: I don't know whether I'm going to be invited back again,
Speaker 2: but it was a very cold stare and staying. On
Speaker 2: Gossip Corner from New Jersey Monthly, they are confirming that
Speaker 2: Adam Sandler is staying in Montclair, New Jersey, not all
Speaker 2: that far from my house, and I do teach a
Speaker 2: college class at Montclair State University. Perhaps I'll pop over there.
Speaker 2: It's a great town, a great restaurant scene. There's great
Speaker 2: theaters there. Maybe I'll pop over and run in Adam
Speaker 2: Sandler and be like, Hey, Adam, which of your movies
Speaker 2: do you think are good? I'd be curious answer that,
Speaker 2: like if you got him, like really honestly, Like he's
Speaker 2: gotta know, like Jack and Jill's not a good movie.
Speaker 2: I'll take fifty million dollars and make Jack and Jill two.
Speaker 2: I don't begrudge the man, but he's got to know
Speaker 2: it's not good, right. I felt bad for him. He
Speaker 2: went all in on uncut Gems and he didn't get
Speaker 2: an award, and we could have had Adam Sandler dramatic actor,
Speaker 2: and we let it slip. Anyway, He's in Montclair working
Speaker 2: on untitled roommates project, which happens to Starr, one of
Speaker 2: his daughters. New Jersey Monthly says neighbors have seen Adam
Speaker 2: Sailor spending time in the area. He's apparently shooting hoops
Speaker 2: and Randa Park. He was also spotted filming in nearby Livingston,
Speaker 2: New Jersey at Nana's Deli, which owners say will be
Speaker 2: closed through July ninth because of the production. Boy, that's
Speaker 2: like a twenty five minute drive. Maybe I'll head over
Speaker 2: to Nana's Deli and just stand there all day for
Speaker 2: the movie. Nanez has been repainted with a sign that
Speaker 2: says Beer and Baumbs, established nineteen eighty five, advertising deli
Speaker 2: favorites like Matza, Ball, soup Chop, liver, Rubens, pastrami, and Kinishes.
Speaker 2: Livingston local We'll say that Adam Sadler has been friendly
Speaker 2: to residents taking selfies with fans who shut up to
Speaker 2: the stet who I'm so tempted to go? According to
Speaker 2: a cast notice, filming for the Netflix project goes through
Speaker 2: August twelfth. A local resident who drove by the set
Speaker 2: said it's exciting to have a little slice of Hollywood
Speaker 2: in Elltown. Yeah. From the pod News newsletter, which if
Speaker 2: you're into podcasting, you should subscribe to, James Kridlin reports
Speaker 2: for the first time in over decade, Michael Palin performed
Speaker 2: Monty Python material on stage at his hometown to a
Speaker 2: packed audience for a podcast called Nobody Expects The Michael
Speaker 2: Palin Podcast, hosted by longtime fan Greg James. On the
Speaker 2: Nobody Expects the Michael Palin Podcast, its chief weapon probably
Speaker 2: a surprise. I didn't know it existed. Palin Palan did
Speaker 2: a world exclusive reading of a deleted end scene from
Speaker 2: Monty Python's Life of Brian. That scene titled the Martyrdom
Speaker 2: of Saint Brian. In it, Michael Palin struggled to getrough
Speaker 2: the scene without laughing Brian's fingers full of naughtiness, which
Speaker 2: got laughter from the crowd. The Times of London went
Speaker 2: to go see Tim Minchin. He's doing a three night
Speaker 2: set at the Apollo in London. Tim was disrupted by
Speaker 2: some of the crowd shouting out details of a scientific
Speaker 2: law he just mentioned. Tim said, you won't get this
Speaker 2: at an oasis gig. He did three hours. The Time
Speaker 2: said his on stage chat is jokey, discursive, rather too
Speaker 2: rambling until he relaxes into it, and far more of
Speaker 2: the second half he takes us through his twenties in Australia,
Speaker 2: writing songs that rarely resurfaced in the act. He first
Speaker 2: brought to Britain in two thousand and five, hence the
Speaker 2: tourist title Songs. The world will never hear spoilers of
Speaker 2: the four Star at a five show, But though the
Speaker 2: first half is uneven, the second is almost walla wall joy.
Speaker 2: He is, in the words of one of his songs,
Speaker 2: a rock and roll nerd. If you ever get an
Speaker 2: opportunity to see Tim Minchin, you should go. I caught
Speaker 2: him a million years ago at the Chicago Comedy Festival,
Speaker 2: which doesn't even exist anymore, and I was just blown
Speaker 2: away by how talented he was. To meet him a
Speaker 2: few times, hung out with him as serious, A cool dude,
Speaker 2: extremely talented dude. And that is your comedy news for today.
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Speaker 2: this interview our sister.
Speaker 1: I'm going to bring forward and yours and give it
Speaker 1: to you now. And he said, oh wow, that's great,
Speaker 1: thank you. That's so generous of you. Car that's great.
Speaker 1: But his wife, my sister in law, went ballistic. She said,
Speaker 1: this is too much money, this is wrong. I don't
Speaker 1: want anything to do with and stormed out of the room.
Speaker 1: And I thought, well, that's not what I expected. Oh
Speaker 1: my god. So I realized from that that this was
Speaker 1: not an easy thing to do. So I learned a
Speaker 1: lesson from that, and I knew that I had to
Speaker 1: do this authentically. I had to do it right, otherwise
Speaker 1: it was not going to work. So that happened. And
Speaker 1: then the third thing that happened was that I was
Speaker 1: looking at my financial statements and I had more money
Speaker 1: there than I was really using. It was sitting there.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was growing, making profits and so forth,
Speaker 1: but it wasn't being used. I wasn't using it for me.
Speaker 1: I wasn't using it for things that I really cared about,
Speaker 1: not for my people. So I thought, well, if I
Speaker 1: have all this money now, why should I wait until
Speaker 1: I die? Why don't I bring it forward? And then
Speaker 1: it was a long process for me to come around
Speaker 1: to that. But that's what finally started this. And I said,
Speaker 1: well I'll do it. Now.
Speaker 3: Let's back up just a bit. Tell us a little
Speaker 3: bit about your new book. What is the Happiness Experiment.
Speaker 1: Well, this is a recording of the real events with
Speaker 1: real people who I decided that I would bring forward
Speaker 1: the inheritance the money I had for them in my
Speaker 1: will and made it a prequest, so it was a
Speaker 1: chunk of money that they were going to get. Well,
Speaker 1: they were still young enough to enjoy it, and I
Speaker 1: was still alive to see it happening. So I saw
Speaker 1: what they were doing. So when I sat down with them,
Speaker 1: I talked about money and happiness and how one can cognect.
Speaker 1: And I said, look, I'm going to bring this forward
Speaker 1: to and give it to you, but what I want
Speaker 1: from you is a plan so you use this money
Speaker 1: so it's really a big benefit for you. I don't
Speaker 1: want this to overwhelm you. And they said what kind
Speaker 1: of plan? I said, I want a happiness plan and
Speaker 1: they said a happiness plan? What's that? So, so you know,
Speaker 1: nobody has seems to have a happiness plan, but it's
Speaker 1: one of the most important plans you can get and
Speaker 1: it doesn't have to be very complex. What is it
Speaker 1: that makes you happy? What values do you want to pursue?
Speaker 1: You know, what goals and dreams do you have, and
Speaker 1: you can pursue them. And so I got them to
Speaker 1: write a happiness plan. And then when I saw the plan,
Speaker 1: I gave them all the money all at one time.
Speaker 1: And so then they took it and I watched them
Speaker 1: with their plan. I saw all their plans, what they did,
Speaker 1: and how they became happier. And so you know, that
Speaker 1: had to be written about so because I wanted other
Speaker 1: people to see what they did, so they too could
Speaker 1: do the same thing.
Speaker 3: Which prequest is the most unique one you've come across.
Speaker 1: Well, it was a very very painful and sad story
Speaker 1: because two dear friends of mine had a beloved daughter
Speaker 1: and she was hit head on by a drunk driver
Speaker 1: and killed. She happened to be eight months pregnant at
Speaker 1: the time, so that killed the granddaughter too, and also
Speaker 1: their daughter. They were totally totally wiped out, devastated, and
Speaker 1: they died emotionally. They had decided that they could never
Speaker 1: be happy again. It would be wrong to be happy.
Speaker 1: They didn't deserve to be happy because their darling daughter
Speaker 1: had been killed. Tremendously painful, awful, awful story. So they
Speaker 1: were grieving six years later and I met with them
Speaker 1: and I told them how much they had added to
Speaker 1: my life and how much I was so grateful to them,
Speaker 1: and that I wanted to expressed the gratitude and I
Speaker 1: put them in my will and they could accept that.
Speaker 1: And I said, but I want you to have it now,
Speaker 1: and they said, oh no, no, we can't accept it.
Speaker 1: They turned it down. They turned it down. Well, we worked,
Speaker 1: and I said, look, I'm leaving it open. So several
Speaker 1: months later, I think his wife persuaded him to do it. Actually,
Speaker 1: you know, and you know, so they said, okay, we'll
Speaker 1: do it because I say, we're going to wait until
Speaker 1: you die, why not do it now? And they did
Speaker 1: that and it wasn't the money, interesting life, they said,
Speaker 1: it was the coaching that made the big difference, that
Speaker 1: changed their mind their mindset from being so negative. You know,
Speaker 1: we'll never be happy again. We don't deserve to be happy.
Speaker 1: And the coach turned there thinking their mindset around, and said, look,
Speaker 1: you know it can be you can be happy again.
Speaker 1: And they started to get the mindset of happy people.
Speaker 1: And now you cannot believe what these people they're traveling
Speaker 1: all over the world. They're in Tahiti right now. They
Speaker 1: climbed Killimungarrett. These people are loving life. And it was
Speaker 1: a major change. That is one of the most heartfelt,
Speaker 1: wonderful results of the And in a sense she said,
Speaker 1: the wife said, this prequest changed or saved my life
Speaker 1: because we were no longer living, we were dead, and
Speaker 1: this brought us back to life.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean dealing with grief and many of us
Speaker 3: have I have. You know, when you're in those depths,
Speaker 3: it's really it can be really difficult to find your
Speaker 3: way out of it. And you know, often it looks
Speaker 3: like there isn't a way out of it, and you know,
Speaker 3: sometimes you want to map, right, and it looks like
Speaker 3: this concept could be a good map for you, if
Speaker 3: that it sounds like it was for these folks. I
Speaker 3: always like to end interviews by asking, is there anything
Speaker 3: that I didn't ask that I should have?
Speaker 1: How can my listeners benefit from this book? What should
Speaker 1: they do? What would be good for them? And so
Speaker 1: I'll answer that question. First off, think about happiness, think
Speaker 1: about being happiness. Do you you deserve to be happy,
Speaker 1: and you can be happy, but you have to make
Speaker 1: it as a choice. I'm going to increase my happiness
Speaker 1: just that if you make that realistically, I want to
Speaker 1: and I'm going to increase my happiness that choice. And
Speaker 1: then talk to people about it. Talk to a husband
Speaker 1: or wife, or a girlfriend or a friend, a therapist
Speaker 1: or coach, talk to somebody about it and say, look,
Speaker 1: I'm made the decision that i want to be happier,
Speaker 1: and I'm like you to help me create a happiness
Speaker 1: plan and then work on it. And it's not that hard,
Speaker 1: but it is. It is challenging, but it's a wonderful
Speaker 1: exercise and if they do it, I guarantee they will
Speaker 1: increase their happiness. I guarantee it.
Speaker 3: Carl Barney is the author and the book is called
Speaker 3: The Happiness Experiments, A Revolutionary Way to Increase Happiness. Carl,
Speaker 3: where could people find the book?
Speaker 1: Wherever books are sold? And it's now available for pre
Speaker 1: order from Amazon and they can go to the Happiness
Speaker 1: Experiment dot com and they can pre order it there
Speaker 1: and I hope they will.
Speaker 3: Carl, thanks so much for the time. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you. Dan it's been fun,